Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Colton , Charles Caleb and Colton , C. G. (1825), Lacon; or, Many things in few words addressed to those who think, Retrieved on 2012-02-01Source Material [books.google.com]
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01 FEB 2012
The Difficulty of Unlearning Errors
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors, as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information: for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds, in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that...Ignorance is a blank sheet on which to write, but error is a sheet that must be erased.